Since teaming up with Rick’s group at the end of Season 5 (again) and joining the main cast, Morgan has not really found his place. Instead, he’s sort of just been left to configure his own lifestyle, surrounded by people with wholly different ideologies.

Although the friendship between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Morgan goes back to Season 1, they have long been philosophically opposed to one another. Morgan finds bloodshed unnecessary and even sinful. Rick, on the other hand, does what he must for his people.

But fans have known that the pacifism will not — cannot — last in the zombie apocalypse, as dangerous humans try to impose a new order and zombies roam unguarded through the Virginian landscape.

While once again zeroing in on just a single character in Episode 13 (for the lion’s share of the hour), this chapter has a broader meaning because Morgan flips to the “dark side.” In doing so, he helps deliver King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) to Rick’s cause, which is, as a reminder, a brutal and unforgiving war versus Negan.

Now, let’s take a look at what occurred in “Bury Me Here.”

Lennie James as Morgan Jones, Macsen Lintz as Henry, Logan Miller as Benjamin.

(Gene Page/AMC)

The show begins in a flash-forward, where Kingdommers place a melon into a basket inside of a truck.

Then, as Morgan trains a young kid on the ways of the “stick,” Carol leaves her house at the outskirts of the Kingdom. She kills walkers with a “One Way” street sign, and inside, she asks Morgan about the Saviors (and why Jesus, played by Tom Payne, brought Daryl and the whole group for the earlier visit).

“You need to talk to Daryl about that,” Morgan informs her. He says he’ll go with her to Alexandria to talk to the Survivors.

“You found what you wanted, right? You got away from everyone. Is it what you wanted?” Morgan inquires of Carol. She rushes off.

Benjamin (Logan Miller) then requests to train with Carol, but she outright refuses. Richard (Karl Makinen) is then shown burying a pack that says “Katy.” Meanwhile, Ezekiel gazes out at the thriving community. A female Kingdommer tells the king that the crops have been compromised. “But if you want, it can all grow back,” she reminds the monarch.

Benjamin is shown returning Morgan’s book on pacifism and he talks about how “injuring others is to injure yourself.” He also gifts Morgan a painting that he scavenged and had spruced up by a girl — and possible love interest. The fatherly sort of friendship between Morgan and Benjamin is evident.

Daniel Newman as Daniel.

(Gene Page/AMC)

Outside, Richard soon talks about how he had a perfect family before the outbreak. Morgan has trouble talking about his own. Richard apologizes for acting the way he has. “I know you’re a good man… The day’s coming where you can’t be that good. When that happens, don't beat yourself up about it.”

A group of Kingdommers soon set out in a dump truck. Morgan asks Benjamin again about his “girl.” The truck encounters a roadblock, forcing them to be late for their rendezvous with the Saviors. They discover a grave that’s been dug with a sign reading, “Bury Me Here.”

“It is mere luck we are not insane,” Ezekiel says while examining the grave (which appears to have been created by Richard, for himself).

In their subsequent meeting with the Saviors, gangster Gavin (Jayson Warner Smith) quickly says, “Don't bring that ‘your highness’ s--t our way.” He also says things have been “unnecessarily tense” and asks for the day’s offering. Upon inspection, he demands to obtain the Kingdommers’ guns.

“Ezekiel, I need you to understand the gravity of what’s happening here. I gave you a choice. What is it going to be?” Gavin reminds the king. Then the group acquiesces. With the upper hand, Gavin says they’re short — 11 melons instead of 12 are in the basket.

“The problems have to end, now,” Gavin warns. Ezekiel offers to get twice as much, but the Savior refuses. The ratty Savior holds up a gun to Richard’s head, but turns and shoots young Benjamin. Gavin demands deliveries be complete as Benjamin bleeds out. Richard is distraught.

Karl Makinen as Richard.

(Gene Page/AMC)

Carol is out gardening when she discovers the Kingdom’s truck come rolling up with a bloody Benjamin. While dying, Benjamin repeats the line from the book Morgan had lent him. He passes away and Morgan storms out. In the street, he absolutely loses his mind (experiencing flashbacks of his son, Duane). First, he nearly slits his wrist, then he kicks a box and just happens to find the missing melon. He realizes the whole thing was staged by Richard.

So, Morgan confronts the soldier, who says it was supposed to be him.

“We've done nothing,” Richard tells Morgan. He opens up about a camp he was in when the outbreak started. After a fight and a fire, he lost his wife. He then ran for three days, and lost his daughter (Katy). “(It’s) because I didn't do something, because I waited,” he tells the pacifist.

Richard openly suggests that they join with Alexandria and Hilltop to crush the Saviors. “This is it, Morgan. You have to kill,” he says.

The Kingdommers place their one missing melon in the truck, to give to Gavin. Meeting with the Saviors, Gavin realizes Benjamin’s dead (when he wanted it to be Richard, but was defied by his own man).

Richard delivers the melon, but Morgan intervenes and savagely beats Richard to death — first with his stick, then with his hands. He bashes his head onto the asphalt and proceeds to tell Ezekiel about the setup.

Khary Payton as Ezekiel, Lennie James as Morgan Jones, Cooper Andrews as Jerry.

(Gene Page/AMC)

Distraught, he later says his son Duane’s name instead of Benjamin while discussing what happened. Once Ezekiel leaves, Morgan drags Richard’s corpse to the grave he once dug. Morgan discovers the pack that Richard had buried there. From there, Morgan lets out some steam and kills a handful of walkers.

He even heads to Carol’s, no longer afraid of hurting feelings or injuring others. “I killed Richard. I strangled him,” Morgan tells her abruptly. “Do you wanna know what happened in Alexandria?”

He tells her about the death of Glenn and Abraham. “Everything they [the Alexandrians] do is for the Saviors now.”

Morgan says he wants to run off, but Carol repeats an earlier line by suggesting, “You can go, and not go.”

In the final scenes, Carol returns to the Kingdom to live within its walls. “I'm gonna be here now,” she tells Ezekiel. “We have to get ready, we have to fight.”

At last, Ezekiel says, “We do.”

“But not today,” he adds.

Morgan’s then shown at Carol’s old house, carving more sticks. He’s ready for war. (His comic book future is bleak, but let’s hope he’s made a good enough impression to stick around. He is, no doubt, a fan favorite.)